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Tech geek, political junkie, media omnivore, @CATargetBot repairman. Research Director for the non-partisan California Target Book. Bad tweets my own.

West Hollywood, CA
Joined June 2010
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Rob Pyers
4 years
The Lincoln Project convinced Democratic donors to part with $39,384,397 in Q3. It burned a staggering $13 million on operating expenditures, made $23.9M of IEs (mostly routed into its founders firms), and ended with $13.2M on hand.
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NEW FEC F3X THE LINCOLN PROJECT RCPT $39,384,397 EXPN $37,032,632 COH $13,197,477
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Rob Pyers
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The Lincoln Project raised $4.8 million between November 24th and December 16th hyping the Georgia Senate runoff elections. Since then, it has spent $1.1 million on independent expenditures in those races and paid Steve Schmidt $1.5 million.
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The Lincoln Project
3 years
#PonziScheme ... how is this legal?
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Rob Pyers
9 months
Donald Trump has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible
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Elon Musk
9 months
If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
🚨L.A. County updates in #CA25 , with 2,241 votes breaking 55.96%/44.04% in FAVOR of incumbent Republican @MikeGarcia2020 , extending his lead over Democrat Christy Smith by 267 votes to a new lead of 371
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CATargetBot
3 years
# #CA25 Update
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Rob Pyers
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🚨The Republican National Committee's year-end filing reveals it had its worst fundraising year since 2013 in absolute dollars and its worst since 1993 in inflation-adjusted figures. It raised $87.2M, spent $93.5M, and had just $8M on hand and $1.8m in debt.
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Donald Trump's leadership PAC has now paid Melania's fashion stylist over $400,000 for his keen strategic insights since April 2022.
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Rob Pyers
5 years
Uncanny.
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Rob Pyers
7 months
FEC filings from EMILY's List record Laphonza Butler's residence as Silver Springs, Maryland as recently as 31 days ago.
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Christopher Cadelago
7 months
SCOOP: Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Dem women who support abortion rights, per a person familiar.
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Republican National Committee cash on hand at end of November: 2016 $21,354,030 2017 $39,838,889 2018 $27,008,324 2019 $63,233,392 2020 $58,777,814 2021 $65,468,902 2022 $17,275,601 2023 $9,956,381
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5 months
NEW FEC F3X REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE RCPT $7,970,718 EXPN $7,134,293 COH $9,956,381
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Rob Pyers
9 months
Incredibly, despite Trump's cash crunch, his Save America leadership PAC shelled out another $108,000 in the first six months of the year for Melania Trump's stylist, Herve Pierre Braillard, while insisting to the FEC that it's for 'strategy consulting'.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
🚨Update from San Bernardino County adds 2,878 votes in #CA39 that break 67.2%/32.8% for Republican @YoungKimCA , widening her lead over incumbent Democrat @RepGilCisneros from 3,095 votes to 4,085 votes.
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CATargetBot
3 years
# #CA39 Update
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Pledge of Allegiance fail at today's L.A. city council meeting...
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Rob Pyers
4 years
CNBC reporter and contributor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has apparently filed to challenge @AOC in #NY14 's Democratic primary. The still-under-construction website here:
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CATargetBot
4 years
NEW FEC F1 #NY14 Caruso-Cabrera For New York
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Rob Pyers
2 years
The Lincoln Project's Q3 report is in...another $3.14 million grifted from their target audience of #resist donors with incredibly poor judgment, $70.8K in political IEs, and...let's see...ah. $3 million in operating expenditures.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
INBOX: The latest attempt to recall California Governor @GavinNewsom has hit the 10% threshold required to get county registrars to begin verifying signatures. That would indicate at least 149,571 signatures have been submitted, so far.
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1 year
Orange County update of 12,087 additional votes in #CA47 break 53.6%/46.4% for incumbent Democrat Katie Porter, netting her 881 votes to claw back some of the ground she lost yesterday--she now leads by 3,772 votes.
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1 year
#CD47 Update 50.79% - 120,876 - Katie Porter (D) 49.21% - 117,104 - Scott Baugh (R)
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Gavin Newsom Recall signature progress over time: 07/21: 400,000 10/15: 675,000 11/17: 750,000 12/04: 800,000 12/29: 900,000 01/05: 1,000,000 01/12: 1,100,000 01/22: 1,200,000 01/27: 1,300,000 02/03: 1,400,000
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Kevin Kiley
3 years
And just like that, we’re at 1.4 million signatures.
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Rob Pyers
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FPPC and FEC filings indicate that soon-to-be California Senator Laphonza Butler hasn't been a resident of the state for over two years.
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Among @ProjectLincoln 's Q3 donors, $300,000 from liberal dark money group Sixteen Thirty Fund
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CATargetBot
4 years
NEW FEC $100K+ CONTRIBUTIONS THE LINCOLN PROJECT
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Rob Pyers
7 years
Brutal numbers for the DNC in June: RNC RCPT $13,504,415 EXP $10,629,234 COH $44,707,217 DNC RCPT $5,500,142 EXP $5,702,049 COH $7,492,435
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Catering to #Resist donors has been a lucrative reversal of fortune for the Lincoln Project's founders. Reed Galen's Summit Strategic was paid $18.8M in Q3, Ron Steslow's TUSK Digital got $8.7M, Kurt Bardella's Endeavor Strategy got $153K
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Rob Pyers
5 years
🚨Major reversal in #CA10 , as 62,589 votes from Stanislaus County give Democrat @joshua_harder a sizable 3,362 vote lead over incumbent Republican @JeffDenham . The latest batch went 53.6% for Harder, 46.4% for Denham.
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5 years
#CD10 Update
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Nice work if you can get it. Lincoln Project founder Reed Galen's Summit Strategic logged $129,668 in expenditures for lodging reimbursement in August.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Well this is a bit of a flashing warning sign...
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Looking through the top transactions, the amount spent on 'Research Services' suggests they're overpaying for someone to trawl through twitter to snatch up other people's content.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Lincoln Project threatens to intervene in the #VAGov race, divert Democratic donor money away from Terry McAuliffe, and use the proceeds to pay for ineffective ads, crisis comms PR, legal fees, generational wealth, and nepotism hires.
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The Lincoln Project
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We’re coming for you, @GlennYoungkin .
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Harsh Lincoln Project subtweet.
@FBIWFO
FBI Washington Field
3 years
Don't fall victim to scam PACs - do your research before giving to candidates & causes.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
🚨In #CA48 , Republican Michelle Steel has overtaken Democrat Harley Rouda
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CATargetBot
3 years
# #CA48 Update
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Rob Pyers
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lol...I guess it's a more eye-catching headline than 'Unauthorized DeSantis ScamPAC that paid its founder 75% of the $1,621 it raised folds, will now support Trump with the $57 dollars it has left'
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Rob Pyers
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Melania Trump's stylist has given $371,000 worth of strategy consulting advice to Trump's Save America leadership PAC since April 2022 thanks to the generosity of retirees donating to Trump's fundraising operation.
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@RawStory
Raw Story
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Trump PAC still paying Melania's stylist $18K a month for 'strategy consulting'
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Rob Pyers
3 years
That should just about finish things up here. #CA39
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# #CA39 Update
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Finally. #CA21
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AP Politics
3 years
BREAKING: Republican David Valadao wins election to U.S. House in California's 21st Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. TJ Cox. #APracecall at 10:32 a.m. PST. #Election2020 #CAelection
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3 years
Update from Fresno County goes 56.2%/45.8% for Republican @dgvaladao in #CA21 , widening his lead over Democrat @TJCoxCongress by 633 votes from 4,030 to 4,663.
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3 years
# #CA21 Update
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Rob Pyers
3 months
tl;dr
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Rob Pyers
1 year
🚨Yet another post-election update from Riverside County that comes in strong for #CA41 Republican Ken Calvert, who wins today's batch of 15,039 votes 54.7%/45.3%, pulling away with another 1,423 votes and into a lead of 5,489 votes and 3.1%.
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1 year
#CD41 Update 51.55% - 91,215 - Ken Calvert (R) 48.45% - 85,726 - Will Rollins (D)
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Rob Pyers
6 years
As we enter day 2 of the idiotic @innoutburger boycott story, here's a sampling of some of the groups who have also given to both sides. Rage away.
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Rob Pyers
7 months
EMILY's List doing some quick tidying up... Archive: Current:
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Rob Pyers
3 months
Walt Nauta, Trump's body man and co-defendant in the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case, collected bi-monthly paychecks from 2 Trump committees totaling $155,544 in 2023, $85,008 from the Trump 2024 cmte and $70,536 from the Save America leadership PAC.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
With the latest $117,000 disclosure today, Rescue California, a Gavin Newsom recall committee that launched in November to add professional fundraising firepower to the effort, has brought in at least $930,800 in contributions since December 11th.
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Rob Pyers
1 year
The Lincoln Project wraps up 2022 having raised $12.6M, spending ~$1M on political independent expenditures, w/the remaining $11.8M going to assorted other operating expenditures (chiefly legal fees/payouts and #resist -funded generational wealth transfers to the usual suspects).
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CATargetBot
1 year
NEW FEC F3X THE LINCOLN PROJECT RCPT $433,995 EXPN $912,842 COH $852,788
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Rob Pyers
9 months
For those keeping track, that's $40.2 million spent on legal fees out of the $53.8 million Trump's committees raised in the first half of the year, or roughly three out of every four dollars raised under a variety of false pretenses.
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Rob Pyers
10 months
Trump world previously announced they had raised $18.8 million in Q1 and over $35 million in Q2, so the topline figures aren't much of a mystery.
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Rob Pyers
1 year
#CA22 Update: Now hearing that Kern County's lone sorting machine is broken and will be undergoing repairs tomorrow morning. (no, seriously)
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James Lambert
1 year
Kern County Clerk Mary Bedard says it may take "weeks" for them to count their ~70,000 outstanding ballots because they only have one sorting machine.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Gavin Newsom recall signatures over time: 07/21 400,000 10/15 675,000 11/17 750,000 12/04 800,000 12/29 900,000 01/05 1,000,000 01/12 1,100,000 01/22 1,200,000 01/27 1,300,000 02/03 1,400,000 02/10 1,500,000 02/17 1,689,000 02/19 1,718,000 02/24 1,825,000
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Rob Pyers
1 year
Among the Lincoln Project's 2022 top vendors: $1.7M Lever Communications (Joe Trippi) $792K Summit Strategic (Reed Galen) $595K Manhattan Creative (Joey Wartnerchaney) $501K Message Mountain (Stu Stevens) $450K Intrepid Media (Rick Wilson) $445K Third Act Media (Ben Howe)
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Rob Pyers
1 year
The Lincoln Project wraps up 2022 having raised $12.6M, spending ~$1M on political independent expenditures, w/the remaining $11.8M going to assorted other operating expenditures (chiefly legal fees/payouts and #resist -funded generational wealth transfers to the usual suspects).
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🚨Update from Madera County in #CA13 comes in big for Republican John Duarte by a 61.6%/38.4% margin, netting him 1,563 votes to vault him into a 963-vote lead over Democrat Adam Gray.
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#CD13 Update 50.40% - 60,084 - John Duarte (R) 49.60% - 59,121 - Adam Gray (D)
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Haven't seen a 100 - 0 vote in the US Senate for...years?
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LOGGED NEW SENATE VOTE (120) Ann Marie McIff Allen, of Utah, to be United States Dist...
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Rob Pyers
9 months
Still unclear if Melania Trump's stylist, who received over $150,000 last year from Trump's leadership PAC for what the FEC was told was 'strategy consulting', was affected by the Trump cash crunch in the first half of the year.
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Trump world attempting to get out ahead of the story that Trump's Save America leadership PAC burned $40.2 million on his legal fees in the first six months of the year.
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Josh Dawsey
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NEW: Trump’s PAC spent over $40M in first half of 2023 on legal costs for Trump & others involved in investigations, as prosecutors probe arrangements. It’s by far Trump World’s biggest spending right now. W/⁦ @DevlinBarrett ⁩ ⁦ @hsu_spencer ⁩:
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Rob Pyers
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Still early, but I have a nagging suspicion that this may not have been the best use of $15 million of Democratic donor money. #GA14
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Beyond parody. The San Francisco Assemblyman freaking out about the discarded airsoft BB gun packaging is also the author of bullet-tracing legislation that has been criticized for not being technically feasible.
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3 years
Orange County has updated its totals. Today's batch of 3,663 #CA48 votes break 62.3%/37.7% for Republican @MichelleSteelCA , bringing her margin over incumbent Democrat @RepHarleyRouda up 901 votes from 1,950 to 2,851 votes.
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# #CA48 Update
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A fairly dumb and dishonest hit piece, but it seems to be playing well with its target demographic of low information voters.
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@60Minutes
60 Minutes
3 years
Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC.
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(It's been over, but #CA41 Republican Ken Calvert is now up by over 10,000 votes in his race).
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1 year
#CD41 Update 52.25% - 120,355 - Ken Calvert (R) 47.75% - 109,991 - Will Rollins (D)
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Rob Pyers
4 years
The turnaround for Galen's firm is particularly pronounced, coming off a 2018 cycle where its only receipts from a federal client amounted to $12,000 from an IE backing a GOP primary challenger to Dana Rohrabacher.
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1 year
Whoa. Game changer in the Florida US Senate race as Lincoln Project swoops in with a shock and awe $34,125 buy in the home stretch opposing Marco Rubio, with 40% of the spend going into ad production and $20.5K for actual airtime.
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1 year
NEW FEC F24 THE LINCOLN PROJECT $34,125-> #FLSEN
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Orange County update in #CA48 adds 13,584 votes that break 52.9%/47.1% for Republican @MichelleSteelCA , widening her lead over incumbent Democrat @HarleyRouda by 782 votes from 6,191 to 6,973
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3 years
# #CA48 Update
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Rob Pyers
4 years
<chef's kiss>
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Rob Pyers
6 months
Sheila Jackson Lee expresses regret, although I'm not seeing a direct apology to staffers Boo Boo, Shitass, or Fuckface.
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Patrick Svitek
6 months
New: @JacksonLeeTX18 breaks silence on recording, expresses regret
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Rob Pyers
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Thoughts and prayers to Sheila Jackson Lee's staffers in this dark time.
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Democrat John Whitmire elected Houston mayor, defeating congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
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#CA13 UPDATE: The district's last major untapped pool of uncounted votes in Stanislaus County posts, adding 5,026 votes that break 51.4%/48.7% for Democrat Adam Gray, which nets him just 136 votes, leaving Republican John Duarte with an 827-vote lead.
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#CD13 Update 50.33% - 62,529 - John Duarte (R) 49.67% - 61,702 - Adam Gray (D)
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Rob Pyers
2 years
California governor paying for re-election billboards in other states accuses Florida governor of being desperate for attention.
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Gavin Newsom
2 years
Hey @GovRonDeSantis , clearly you're struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives. Since you have only one overriding need -- attention --let's take this up & debate. I’ll bring my hair gel. You bring your hairspray. Name the time before Election Day. @CNN
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Not even 15 minutes in...
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Rob Pyers
3 months
Starting now: the 2nd #CASen debate, featuring Democrats Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, Barbara Lee, and Republican Steve Garvey
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🚨And now Ventura County updates in #CA25 , adding 241 votes that break 60.6%/39.4% for incumbent Republican @MikeGarcia2020 , further extending his lead over Democrat @ChristyForCA25 by 51 votes to 422 votes.
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# #CA25 Update
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3 years
#CA48 incumbent Democrat @RepHarley concedes to Republican @MichelleSteelCA .
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Harley Rouda
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Thanks to the incredible energy brought by our thousands of grassroots volunteers, I was proud to be the first Democrat ever to represent #CA48 . Serving the people here has been the honor of my life.
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🚨 #CA48 Final Update: With no uncounted ballots remaining in Orange County, @HarleyRouda has claimed the #2 spot in the runoff vs @DanaRohrabacher , outpolling @DrHansKeirstead by 126 votes.
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Rob Pyers
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Just noticed that Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta is pulling double duty and getting paid by both the Trump 2024 campaign committee and the Save America leadership PAC.
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🚨🚨As Orange County gets into the vote center ballots, tonight's #CA47 update breaks 57.7% 42.3% for Republican Scott Baugh, who slashes Katie Porter's lead by 2,446 votes down to 2,891 and 1.28%
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#CD47 Update 50.64% - 114,392 - Katie Porter (D) 49.36% - 111,501 - Scott Baugh (R)
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Newsom already making inroads with the low-information voter demographic.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
🚨🚨JUST IN: Herschel Walker has apparently filed FEC paperwork to run for the Georgia US Senate seat currently held by Democrat @SenatorWarnock
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CATargetBot
3 years
NEW FEC F1 #GASEN Team Herschel, Inc.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Although the former GOP consultants' ads might not have proven to be in any way persuasive, Democratic donors should take some solace that they bankrolled a six-figure months-long getaway to a luxury ski resort for them to #Resist in style.
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Rob Pyers
9 months
Somehow still a thing, The Lincoln Project raised $3.6M in the first half of the year. It reported $34,717 in political expenditures, incinerated $3.5 million on operating expenditures, and ended w/$906.9K that had not yet been seized for the advancement of generational wealth.
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Rob Pyers
2 years
End of an era.
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1 year
Another strong update out of Tulare County for #CA22 Republican David Valadao. Today's batch of 2,332 votes break 60.3%/39.7% in his favor to net him 480 votes to widen his lead over Democrat Rudy Salas to 4,445 votes.
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#CD22 Update 53.02% - 39,043 - David G. Valadao (R) 46.98% - 34,598 - Rudy Salas (D)
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Rob Pyers
3 months
The @DSCC lands one of their most sought-after 2024 recruits in #MTSen
@MattForMontana
Matt Rosendale
3 months
🚨This morning, I officially filed for the U.S. Senate. We’ve made great accomplishments in the House, only to see them die at the hands of Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer in the Senate. Montanans want a Senator that fights for WE,THE PEOPLE, not the D.C. Cartel!
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Another 1,823 votes in #CA48 go 60.82%/39.2% for Republican @MichelleSteelCA , extending her lead over incumbent Democrat @HarleyRouda by 373 votes to 7,346 votes.
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3 years
# #CA48 Update
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Rob Pyers
1 year
Interesting. In every district-wide partisan Republican vs Democrat race in Katie Porter's #CA47 (candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction have no party labels on the ballot), Republicans are over 50% in all but the congressional race.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
#CA25 update from Ventura County adds 454 votes that break 56.6%/43.4% for incumbent Republican @MikeGarcia2020 , extending his lead over Democrat Christy Smith by 60 votes from 159 to a new lead of 219.
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3 years
# #CA25 Update
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Rob Pyers
1 year
Oof.
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Rob Pyers
14 days
NEW: Save America, the Trump leadership PAC paying his legal bills, brought in $10,713 in March plus $5M refunded from the MAGA, Inc SuperPAC. It spent $5M ($3.2M on legal fees, $780K sent to MAGA PAC for its legal fees), ending w/$4.09M on hand and $887K in unpaid legal fees.
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NEW FEC F3X SAVE AMERICA RCPT $5,010,713 EXPN $5,000,629 COH $4,091,185
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Rob Pyers
1 year
🚨JUST IN: California reports it has at least 4.8 million more votes to count in its first post-election estimate. VBM: 4,656,303 Proviaional: 40,127 Conditional reg: 64,752 Other: 68,697 TOTAL: 4,829,879
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Rob Pyers
3 months
In addition to the federal spending, Cori Bush's congressional campaign committee has also spent over three quarters of a million dollars on security since 2020, far and away the campaign's biggest expense category.
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Jake Sherman
3 months
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is conducting a criminal probe into @CoriBush , according to six sources familiar with the investigation. The Justice Department subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms for records relating to the misspending of federal security money.…
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Rob Pyers
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The RNC's November haul was boosted by $850,000 from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which itself isn't looking at all well lately. November ending cash: 2018 $13,720,520 2019 $18,010,729 2020 $36,831,080 2021 $30,087,674 2022 $10,589,719 2023 $7,722,053
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Rob Pyers
1 year
🚨Here we go...Florida Governor @RonDeSantis has filed FEC paperwork to run for President of the United States.
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Rob Pyers
2 years
A $1,000 donation automatically defaults to $990 to Trump's Save America cmte, $10 to Masters' campaign committee.
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Maggie Haberman
2 years
A reader flags this link signed by Trump for a split donation to his own group and Blake Masters. Unless donors click through the fine print, they won't realize the donations are automatically divided to be almost entirely to Trump's group
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Orange County updates, with 17,729 more votes in #CA48 that split 54%/46% for Republican @MichelleSteelCA , widening her lead over incumbent Democrat @RepHarleyRouda by 1,417 votes to 6,191 votes.
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3 years
# #CA48 Update
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Rob Pyers
1 year
The first bit of good news for Democrats tonight--Democrat Adam Gray pulls into a 761-vote lead in #CA13 , after 22,335 votes were added from his home turf in Merced County and broke 51.9%/48.1% in his favor, netting him 845 votes and putting him ahead 761 votes.
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CATargetAlt
1 year
#CD13 Update 50.37% - 51,203 - Adam Gray (D) 49.63% - 50,442 - John Duarte (R)
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Rob Pyers
9 months
Today's first Trump PAC filing is in...the dormant Trump MAGA Cmte, which served as the small-dollar joint fundraising committee in 2016 and 2020, spent $202.8K on operating expenditures, sent $1.02M to the Save America leadership PAC paying his legal bills, and has $3.29M left.
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Rob Pyers
1 year
Another #AZ06 update just posted, with 604 votes splitting 52%/48% for Republican Juan Ciscomani to net him an additional 24 votes, bringing his lead to 2,098 votes.
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Rob Pyers
2 months
Eric Swalwell's campaign donors shelled out over $100,000 in the first six weeks of 2024 so the Congressman could take in a few football games and tell the FEC it was for a fundraising event.
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Brent Scher
3 months
Serious question: Who on earth paid for @ericswalwell 's Super Bowl ticket? That ticket cost well over $10k...I've written about how he's basically broke
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Orange County updates in #CA39 , adding 731 votes that break 55.7%/44.3% for Republican @YoungKimCA , adding 83 votes to her margin over incumbent Democrat @RepGilCisneros to a lead of 3,550 votes.
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3 years
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Rob Pyers
2 years
Can we get a round of applause for the consultants running against Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Trump +37% #GA14 for surpassing $15.6 million in contributions for the 2022 cycle? Just an amazing achievement in the wide-scale destruction of Democratic donor money.
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Rob Pyers
1 year
Money raised for the 'GOP ballot harvesting operation' goes to Trump's Save America JFC, which splits the funds between the Trump 2024 cmte and the Save America leadership PAC, whose largest outlay has been the $60M to the MAGA, Inc. SuperPAC running ~$10M in ads vs Ron DeSantis.
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The Washington Times
1 year
Trump camp is raising money for a GOP ballot harvesting operation
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Rob Pyers
2 years
Trump's MAGA, Inc. unloads another $2.8 million in four US senate races: #AZSen $932,498 #GASen $926,425 #PASen $860,714 #NVSen $102,500 The group has now spent $14.8 million in general election IEs.
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2 years
NEW FEC F24 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN INC. $2,822,137-> #AZSEN #GASEN #PASEN #NVSEN
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Rob Pyers
2 years
For those trying to keep track, interfering in the other party's primaries is bad again.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell
2 years
Shocker. Comrade Trump is now meddling in elections.
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Rob Pyers
2 years
Priorities. #WISen (Biden +0.6%) Mandela Barnes Raised (through 7/20): $7,002,386 #GA14 (Trump +37.4%) Marcus Flowers Raised (through 6/30): $10,762,237
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Rob Pyers
1 year
<laughs in Eric Swalwell>
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Kaitlan Collins
1 year
During his campaign, Santos spent $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on airfare and $14,000 on car services. For comparison, Nick LaLota, another representative-elect from NY, spent roughly $900 on hotel stays, $3,000 on airfare and $900 on taxi services.
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Rob Pyers
3 years
Eleven thousand retweets, demonstrating once again that the most surefire way to boost your social media engagement metrics is to spout complete nonsense.
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Kevin Sorbo
3 years
So California is requiring signature verification for Gavin Newsom’s recall, but didn’t require it for the mail in ballots. How strange
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Rob Pyers
3 years
You can, it seems, 'make this shit up'. Thousands of retweets, tens of thousands of likes for fact-free nonsense. CA extended its all-mail election provisions in February pre-'Delta variant' and when the recall was still hundreds of thousands of signatures away from qualifying.
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Aubrey Huff
3 years
Due to new “delta variant” California will be mailing in ballots for recall election. You can’t make this shit up. Setting it up for @GavinNewsom to stay in power. If you can’t see how obvious the corruption & lies are then you’re truly lost.
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Rob Pyers
4 years
Not a shock, but @ProjectLincoln expresses its unwillingness to disrupt its lucrative #Resist donor revenue stream.
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The Lincoln Project
4 years
Under no circumstances should a nomination go forward in the United States Senate. Our full statement:
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